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Florida coach Billy Napier sees big picture, life lesson in loss to Georgia
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Florida coach Billy Napier sees big picture, life lesson in loss to Georgia
It was a short bus ride back to Gainesville for Coach Billy Napier and his Gators on Saturday after Georgia effectively derailed their season by a 43-20 count.
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A lot of rationalizations in his comments. The fourth and less than a yard call was one of the worst play calls of the year. And then to say it was about the players and execution. Really! That play was on him alone. It changed the momentum early in the still close game. Please Florida, keep him around for a while.
Agree !! He Shoukd have took ownership for that Big mistake. But instead Chose to pass it off on his players. Which equals Another Big mistake. Sometimes it IS player execution at fault. But That wasn’t one of ‘Em. Smael Mondon had that thing read Before they even snapped the ball !! And was on Em like u g l y on a gator !! Go Dawgs !!
Napier can claim the execution of the play was the problem but it's the second quarter with the score 10 to 7. You are at your own 34 yard line. You punt the ball and play field position. Once Georgia snuffed out the play and went on to take the lead, momentum changed entirely.
This is the coach's poor decision. Napier might want to fess up.
Mike.
You continually talk about how Sun Belt Billy has the current #3 recruiting class for the the 24 year cycle...You seem to forget at times that Kirby and his program have the #1 class for the 24 cycle and and have recruited the top #1, #2 and #3 classes for over a half a decade now.
Here is a fact you beat writers almost never mention...Sun Belt Billy, the SEC and the rest of college football are chasing Kirby and his program not just in the fact that Smarts recruiting is lethal and methodical but the real truth of reality is Kirby and his staff are coaching this programs players into motivated killing machines of opponents week after week and year after year.
Perfect example to compare an opponents supposed #1 recruiting classes creating future victories on the field. Look know further than the little clown show down in middle Texas at TAMU. Yes recruiting is a programs life line but what you beat writers fail to cover almost always is once they get on campus they have to be coached 365/25/7 and put in positions to beat their Saturday opponents...coaching is the ultimate key to winning and losing... Sun Belt Billy is an avg coach... Kirby Smart is the KING OF COACHING!!!
I'd say the path runs through Athens, not Gainesville.. If you can't beat the DAWGS, you have no shot at winning the East division..GoDAWGS!
You're right of course. Also Kirby has a knack for recruiting lower ranked players who perform far better than the ranking services might expect them to. Some of this is due to great development, but the fact is the ranking services aren't as good as ranking and evaluation as Kirby and Company.
Billy certainly made coaching errors, looking back on them. His risk:benefit analysis was a bit skewed towards danger. He paid for it, yet blames his players. The sign of a coach out of touch with his team's capacities?
Florida has come a long way since their disastrous, embarrassing lose to Utah. They are a very dangerous team. That said, Florida is not in the league with the Dawgs. Spurrier and MuLLLLen and Napier couldn't combine their talents to collectively carry Kirby's coaching jockstrap. I wouldn't be shocked to see Florida lose to Arkansas. The game yesterday was nowhere near as close as the scoreboard indicated.
The main draw for recruits considering Florida is twofold. They'll get significant early playing time. They can participate in the shared delusions of Gator Nation.
Going to Georgia means signing up for very hard work, hard coaching, endless competition, endless improvement, and a never ending struggle to improve and win regardless of the cost. Georgia is not for everyone.
Napier is a vast improvement over CDM. It should embarrass all Georgia fans to think that we once considered he might be a good coach to move from Mississippi to Athens. He manages to look like almost as much of a jerk as Spurrier who was at least a decent coach until Kirby came along to show him what a great coach was like and our Dawgs forced him to quit mid season, showing South Carolina his true colors. He is a selfish man. CDM is equally full of himself.
Florida has a coach who throws his players under the bus. That's the Gator tradition.
Go, Dawgs!